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Roof Books / EcoTheo Review’s Off-Site AWP19 Reading Series

Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United States

Writers published or forthcoming in EcoTheo Review will share an hour with authors from Roof Books at Passages Bookshop from 12-1pm. Featured readers include Eduardo C. Corral, Chelsea Dingman, Nancy Reddy, C.T. Salazar, C.T. Salazar, Kyle Schlesinger, Leah Silvieus & Claire Wahmanholm and more. Books will be for sale! Come enjoy the beautiful shop and be nourished by the words of these writers. Please join us as we celebrate two new poetry books from Roof, The Riot Grrrl Thing by Sara Larsen and Thought Balloon by Kit Robinson. The authors will read and sign copies. It will be fun. See you there at noon, hour of the smallest shadow!

Free

Offsite with Four Way Books, Persea Books, and Bull City Press

Lucky Labrador Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby St, Portland, OR, United States

Featuring readings from: Four Way Books authors and friends of the press Sally Ball, Blas Falconer (Forgive the Body This Failure, September 2018), Monica Ferrell (You Darling Thing, September 2018), Jennifer Franklin (No Small Gift, September 2018), Melanie S. Hatter (Malawi's Sisters, March 2019), Owen Lewis, Tom Thompson (Passenger, September 2018), Daniel Tobin (Blood Labors, September 2018) Persea Books poets Stacey Lynn Brown (The Shallows, 2018), Sarah Gambito (Loves You, 2019), Cynthia Marie Hoffman (Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, 2018), Valencia Robin (Ridiculous Light, 2019), and Gary Young (That's What I Thought, 2018) and a selection of wonderful authors from Bull City Press: Kate Daniels (Three Syllables about Addiction, 2018), Leah Silvieus (Season of Dares, 2018), Jim Whiteside (Writing Your…

Free